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Waste matter   /weɪst mˈætər/   Listen
Waste matter

noun
1.
Any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted.  Synonyms: waste, waste material, waste product.  "Much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"






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"Waste matter" Quotes from Famous Books



... burning to orange in the long afternoons. For once she was idle, come at last to the end of all her journeyings. Only the present, the tranquil, perfect present, existed. What did not touch upon it, fit in and have some purpose in her life with the man of whom she was a part, was waste matter. She who had once been unable to endure the thought of separation from her father could now look back on his death and say, "How I suffered then," and know no reminiscent pang. She would have wondered at herself if, in the happiness in which she was lapped, she could have ...
— The Emigrant Trail • Geraldine Bonner



Words linked to "Waste matter" :   rubbish, slop, excrement, exhaust fumes, scraps, impurity, toxic industrial waste, dross, food waste, toxic waste, fumes, crud, pollutant, trash, sewerage, garbage, exhaust, material, sewage, filth, stuff, scrap, excreta, excretion, skank, excretory product, sewer water, effluent, wastewater, refuse, body waste



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